Adsense Sites – How to Make Your First $1 with Adsense

There has been some discussions, to create Adsense sites or not to create...
Why give away commission for just cents or dollars when you can make more?

I have found some niches to be good for Adsense sites, (not saying I would add Adsense to any niche) or any other advertising program for that matter. In this case we will be talking about Adsense but there are other advertising programs that you can use as well.

If you get decent traffic to your site, Adsense can be a easy way to start making your first money online. I had been playing around with small niche sites and affiliate offers and wanted to try a plain Adsense site out.

I did some research and put my site up, it was a ugly little site, but I got it to rank on first page of Google and the CTR was high... I made $530.52 the second month with the site, this was May 2011, yes I wanted to create more Adsense sites after that :).

Should probably through this in. Disclaimer – this is how I did it, I do not guarantee any results or monetary compensation for anybody

The site has since been up and down in the rankings. I have not added much content to the site and it still makes me money. Last month July 2012 it made me $83.16 not bad for a site that I have not done much with in months.

In this Adsense tutorial we will talk about:

  1. What niches to chose when creating plain Adsense sites.
  2. Keywords - Go for high CPC or low CPC?
  3. Should you combine Adsense with affiliate programs?
  4. How to get the Adsense Code from Google Adsense.
  5. What Adsense Plugin to Use.
  6. Where to Place Your Adsense Ads.
  7. Not Approved or Maybe Banned from Google Adsense.

Lets get started!


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fishing Premium
Why is this not working cannot fiqure it out...does it take some time for google to do something??? I have an old adsense account that seems to be open still....I pasted the code in and nothing happens....do you need different code for each ad???..I have used the plugin and tried to paste directly and nothing.....any ideas??? thanks Veronica...:)
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veronica.l Premium
Hello,
You do not need different code for each ad. Feel free to PM me the site and I can take a look. If you want to email me the code I can take a look at that as well...

It usually takes a few minutes for the ad to "go live"...

Is the Adsense account still good? You can start "earning" before all details are squared away, you might want to make sure the account is still valid.

Veronica
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bryonbrewer Premium
the keywords you choose in the CPC/traffic/competition section, those are for ranking your site right? and google will automatically assign ads for that keyword? or do you also tell google the keywords when you create the ad?
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veronica.l Premium
That is correct, the keywords is for ranking my site and Google will assign ads for the content on my site.
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bryonbrewer Premium
excellent thanks. I had been meaning to set up an adsense site recently so this training will help me get off my a** and do it
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veronica.l Premium
glad I got you going on this :)
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bryonbrewer Premium
so i had a few keywords that jaaxy was saying were 500 or so searches and less than 100 QSR (pretty good) but the same kw on google's kw tool says "high" competition, what would you do in this situation? I trust jaaxy's results will let me rank for that KW, wheareas google's competition is more referring to adwords competition
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TJ Books Premium
I took all my adsense ads off my sites because I thought they might take people away from my sites but I missed the checks so put them back on some site and will probably have them on all the sites before it is over. I haven't finished reading your article. More tomorrow. John
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veronica.l Premium
It is always good to do some testing... and yes the checks are nice too :)
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DABK Premium
The trick, as always, is to be able to get it to be #1, so keyword selections is important. I've also found out that people in the last stages of buying don't click on the adsense ads on my sites. People in the earlier stages do.

I've found out, for me, anyway, sites built around: how to kind of keywords get me more clicks. My click through rates on my best adsense site based on late buying cycle stages has a click through rate of 3-4%. My best one built on keywords people use in the earlier stages of they buying cycle gets me 9-11%, one month it got me 5% (which is still higher than 4).

Nice one, Veronica.
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veronica.l Premium
You are right, number 1 keyword is what we want. We need volume, lots of traffic to these sites. It also help when you work with niches that have high CPC (cost per click), but don`t underestimate the niches with low CPC though, lots of traffic can add up.

Just an example, I checked the average CPC and CTR (click through rate) this year on my Adsense sites:

I have one site with a CTR of 21%, CPC is only $0.10 but it still bring me some good money with that high CTR.

I have another site with a 2,27% CTR but the CPC is $3,27 so that brings in some good money too.

Thanks for adding this, think I will have to add this to the training.

Veronica
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stadium Premium
This will help people get started making money more quickly, I personally creating an adsense site is a lot less intimidating. So I think its good for beginners. Just supply information, don't even think of selling anything.
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veronica.l Premium
Exactly no selling just helpful information. Thanks for your comment,

Veronica
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uakoko Premium
Thank you for this comment. I was wondering where, as a beginner, I should start...Now I know!
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